His appearance, changed by his civilian dress, was as fascinating to her as though she were some young girl in love.

In everything he said, thought, and did, she saw something particularly noble and elevated.

Her adoration of him alarmed her indeed; she sought and could not find in him anything not fine.

She dared not show him her sense of her own insignificance beside him.

It seemed to her that, knowing this, he might sooner cease to love her; and she dreaded nothing now so much as losing his love, though she had no grounds for fearing it.